Abid Hamid Mahmud

Abid Hamid Mahmud (1957-7 June 2012) was a Lieutenant-General of the Iraqi Army under Saddam Hussein and the director of the Iraqi Special Security Organization from 1992 to 1997, succeeding Fannar Zibin al-Hassan and preceding Nawfal Mahjoom al-Tikriti.

Biography
Abid Hamid Mahmud was born in 1957 in Tikrit, Iraq, the cousin of Saddam Hussein. Mahmud rose in the ranks of the Iraqi Army to be a Lieutenant-General as well as his cousin's personal secretary and bodyguard, effectively being his right-hand man. Mahmud fought in the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War as a general in the army, and in 2003 the United States made an effort to capture him during the invasion of Iraq at the start of the Iraq War. On 16 June 2003, Mahmud was captured in Tikrit by American Delta Force and British SAS operatives, and on 26 October 2010 he was sentenced to death by the sectarian Shia government. On 7 June 2012, he was executed by hanging.